The rules clearly state that contestants outside of the US are responsible for taxes, duties, tarrifs … under “Contest Kits and Shipping” pretty much at the top! I’d rather blame the government of your country for looting their citizens with a ludicrously high VAT (of 19.8% or even higher?) but not Renesas for giving away a very advanced and well documented development kit.

Btw. registered companies in all EU countries are eligible for full VAT/import tax refund ;)

Hi,
I don’t blame for renesas or countries duties or so on …
I blame for the heavy book that was sended with the card and was priced $150
it made a far greater vat compared to the $99 of the card and could have been send by pdf and save some trees …

Micrium Demo 5 shows the Ethernet (Use the Micrium Quick Start Guide – or better yet download the book from the Renesas site and follow its instructions) and the USB projects are in the Renesas Project Examples (Use the Renesas Quick start Guide).